The cost of managerialism: The implications for the 'McDonaldisation' of higher education in Hong Kong

The cost of managerialism: The implications for the 'McDonaldisation' of higher education in Hong Kong

• Mok, K. H. City University of Hong Kong

Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 21(1), 117-127, 1999

Routledge

1999

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QE Post-Secondary Education
• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RD Educational Finance & Resource Allocation

College Students Delivery Systems Educational Change Foreign Countries Grants Higher Education Marketing Paying For College Public Colleges Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Universities and other institutions of higher learning now encounter far more challenge, and are subjected to an unprecedented level of external scrutiny. All providers of higher education today inhabit a more competitive world where resources are becoming scarcer, but at the same time they have to accommodate increasing demands from the local community as well as changing expectations from parents and employers. In order to be responsive to all those competing needs an emphasis on 'strong management' is introduced in the educational realm, with a fundamental paradigm shift to the notion of economic rationalism in running educational services. In such a policy context this paper sets out to examine how higher education in Hong Kong has gone through a similar process of marketisation with particular reference to the strategies and approaches adopted by the University Grants Committee, the central funding body of higher educational institutions in Hong Kong, to assure a quality and ' value for money' higher education in the territory. This paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the adoption of a 'management- oriented' approach in delivering educational services.
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Version of a paper presented to the School of Social and Policy Studies in Education, the University of Sydney, Australia, August 1997.

• English

Journal Articles

• 1360080X

• 10.1080/1360080990210109

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/cfa1aecd

2010-09-27